Paula G. Love is the new chief financial officer for Talladega College in Alabama. Love comes to her new appointment with more than two decades of higher education leadership experience in finance, operations, compliance, and institutional strategy. Throughout her career, she has held senior leadership roles with colleges and universities across Tennessee, South Carolina, and Texas. She has also been a finance peer evaluator for the Commission on Colleges and Universities since 2017.
Love holds a bachelor of business administration degree in accounting and management from what is now the University of Memphis Lambuth in Tennessee and an MBA from Union University in Jackson, Tennessee.
Michiko Pinnington was appointed division financial officer for the College of Engineering & Applied Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Pinnington has more than 15 years of senior finance and administrative leadership experience in higher education. Her previous leadership roles including serving as chief financial officer and vice president for finance and administration at Westminster University in Utah and assistant dean for finance and administration at the University of Arizona’s Rogers College of Law.
Pinnington holds a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Arizona and a master’s degree in international relations and economics from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England.
Irene Okwang is vice president for institutional effectiveness and chief human resources officer at Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Dr. Okwang first joined the college in 2024 as associate vice president of human resources. Previously, she held human resources leadership roles at the State University of New York at New Paltz, Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, and Greystone Programs Inc.
Dr. Okwang is a graduate of the University of Ghana, where she majored in linguistics. She holds a master’s degree in human resource management from Stony Brook University in New York and a doctorate in organizational leadership and management from St. Thomas University in Florida.
Camille Hosman has been named assistant vice president for federal affairs in the Office of Government and Community Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania. Her appointment marks a return to Penn, where she previously served as associate director of federal affairs. More recently, Hosman was director of federal government affairs at Stanford University. She has also worked for the University of Missouri System Office of Government Affairs.
Hosman is a graduate of the University of Missouri, where she majored in political science. She holds a master of law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Luisa M. Lucero is the executive director for administration and business operations in the School of Public Health at the University of Nevada-Reno. Dr. Lucero previously served as a lecturer and internship coordinator in the School of Community and Environmental Health at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She then transitioned to the corporate health care sector, where she spent five years leading technology and operational initiatives.
Dr. Lucero earned her Ph.D. in public administration and policy with a concentration in health policy from Old Dominion University.